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Not updating my priors on all UFO sightings. I’m updating my priors on “The Golden Age of General Relativity”, B DeWitt, L Witten, RIAS, the Martin Company, etc.” And I’m doing it based on a government report inconsistent with the closing report of BlueBook. And you?
Not updating my priors on all UFO sightings. I’m updating my priors on “The Golden Age of General Relativity”, B DeWitt, L Witten, RIAS, the Martin Company, etc.” And I’m doing it based on a government report inconsistent with the closing report of BlueBook. And you?
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According to UFOlogists 95% of all sightings for all time are explained by natural/terrestrial phenom (planes, blimps, geese, sun dogs, lens flares, etc.). 5% unexplained (≠ ET or Russian tech). X new sighting is made. Which bin is X most likely to be in?
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Important Known Events

1948

1953

1955

  • George S Trimble, the vice president for aviation and advanced propulsion systems at the Glenn L. Martin Company, forms the Research Institute for Advanced Studies (RIAS), supervised by Welcome Bender
  • July 9: Initial meeting between Bryce DeWitt and Agnew Bahnson in Raleigh, N.C
  • September 7: Agnew Bahnson incorporates The Institute of Field Physics (IOFP) at UNC Chapel Hill, to be directed by Bryce DeWitt and Cécile DeWitt-Morette

1957

1973

Relevant People

Notable winners of the Gravity Research Foundation essay contest

Relevant Institutions

Eric's Coverage

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Eric Weinstein

Hi Michael,

Not updating my priors on all UFO sightings. I’m updating my priors on “The Golden Age of General Relativity”, B DeWitt, L Witten, RIAS, the Martin Company, etc.” And I’m doing it based on a government report inconsistent with the closing report of BlueBook. And you?

4:20 PM · Jan 10, 2022
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Michael Shermer

Dear @EricRWeinstein

According to UFOlogists 95% of all sightings for all time are explained by natural/terrestrial phenom (planes, blimps, geese, sun dogs, lens flares, etc.). 5% unexplained (≠ ET or Russian tech). X new sighting is made. Which bin is X most likely to be in?

4:05 PM · Jan 10, 2022
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Eric Weinstein

We have been spun. And as skeptics we have to notice the inconsistencies.

We were likely either spun this last summer, or spun at the closure of Operation BlueBook.

The whole thing sounds like total bullshit. But we also have a lot of weird stuff from real 1950s science.

4:26 PM · Jan 10, 2022
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Eric Weinstein

Who were Babson and Bahnson? Those stories don’t make much sense. Why Bryce and Cecile DeWitt and Peter Higgs in Chappell hill funded as part of a weird anti-gravity program?

Simple question: how did you tutor your priors last summer? Not at all? A tiny amount?

Skeptically, E

4:26 PM · Jan 10, 2022

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The Physics of UFOs: Eric Weinstein + Hal Puthoff (February 11, 2022)

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Joe Rogan Experience #1945 (February 22, 2023)

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